Attorneys for David Daleiden, a pro-life advocate and journalist who released videos on Planned Parenthood’s fetal tissue procurement, have asked the abortion provider to prove it has not sold fetal tissue for commercial gain.
Daleiden was the project head for the pro-life group Center for Medical Progress, which in 2015 released several videos of conversations with Planned Parenthood executives. The videos alleged that Planned Parenthood affiliates were illegally selling fetal body parts for profit. Those accusations have since been dropped.
The recent legal action is part of Planned Parenthood Federation of America v Center for Medical Progress, in which a court ruled last August that the videos had been obtained illegally.
At a July 19 hearing at U.S. District Court in Oakland California, Daleiden’s defense team, including attorneys from the non-profit Thomas More Society, asked the court to compel Planned Parenthood to prove that its affiliates have not profited from fetal tissue transactions.
The attorneys have specifically asked for documented invoices.
Planned Parenthood has said previously it followed federal laws that forbid entities to “acquire, receive, or otherwise transfer any human fetal tissue for valuable consideration.”
“We invite them to prove it,” said Peter Breen of the non-profit Thomas More Society, and a member of Daleiden’s legal team.
“The law is simple. If the payments received for fetal body tissue exceeded the allowable costs, then Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were first, engaged in criminal conduct, and next, making a profit off of selling aborted baby parts,” Breen said in a press release Thursday.
“The idea that this huge profiteer thinks that they can just say something without having to produce relevant evidence is preposterous.”
Full story at Catholic News Agency.
You are messin’ with Satan’s beloved, so watch out, Mr. Daleiden and counsel. Let’s also ask where are the Democratic Party people when this important proof was asked? In fact, they are quacking in their boots, having slobbered over Planned Parenthood and their delicious millions provided to the Democrats, they now stand to lose in at least two big ways: (1) PP is shown to have profited from the commercialization of aborted baby parts; and (2) the Dems also profited from this butchery. Of course, then a third course opens up, the avenue to prison for violating federal law and for perjury (at least). One also wonders if the mothers that killed their children could file a legal action against PP for unjust enrichment; the Moms might…
What accounting standards determine the ‘allowable costs’ referred to in the article? The adage says beauty is in the eyes of the beholder. Allowable cost is in the pencil of the cost accountant. I’m sure the parties can find experts on both sides of that issue.